RAM slot not working

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thomas0792

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Okay so here it goes. My laptop stopped working back in June. It was a motherboard issue so i sent it in for repair under warranty and they replaced the motherboard. Im guessing they didnt actually find out what happened to the motherboard, just that it was bad. Well i got it back and a day later, it goes out on me doing the same thing. It wouldnt boot up. Just display lights a fan. No harddrive activity or anything. Just a black screen, lights and fan. A DAY LATER AFTER I GOT IT!!

Well i started looking online for solutions. I also called Geeksquad who had fixed the laptop, they said try reseating the memory. So i did just that. But i still wouldnt work. So i tried moving the RAM cards around a bit. My laptop has 3gb of RAM. One 2gb card and on 1gb. I have DDR2 chipset or whatever. I figured out that one of my slots is not working. So i put in the 2gb and left out the 1gb and it booted up perfectly.

Its to my understanding that DDR2 is meant to read 2 cards of the same capacity. So basically its worked the slot my 1gb was in twice as hard to keep up with the 2gb and fried it. I wanted to know if this is true.

My laptop is a Gateway notebook-model MD2614u
Look it up on google, the specs are there.

If the answer to my question is yes, its true than gateway is just retarded bc if you look at the specs thats the way it was sold to me.

Thankyou, Thomas.
 
You are totally wrong on that. You might have a bad stick of memory. To be in dual channel you need 2 sticks. Try another stick of memory. Will it boot up if you put the 2 gb stick in either slot? If so, then 1gb stick is bad. If not, then you have a bad memory slot.
 
johnb35 said:
You are totally wrong on that. You might have a bad stick of memory. To be in dual channel you need 2 sticks. Try another stick of memory. Will it boot up if you put the 2 gb stick in either slot? If so, then 1gb stick is bad. If not, then you have a bad memory slot.
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No i dont think im totally wrong. Im not an idiot, the slot is bad. neither card will work by itself in the second slot but they will in the first slot. So no i dont need both sticks. in fact im writing back on the one 2gb stick right now. The slot is bad, but im trying to figure out why it would go bad.. It was just replaced a week ago.
 
I didn't mean on that, I meant this part

"Its to my understanding that DDR2 is meant to read 2 cards of the same capacity. So basically its worked the slot my 1gb was in twice as hard to keep up with the 2gb and fried it. I wanted to know if this is true."
 
johnb35 said:
I didn't mean on that, I meant this part

"Its to my understanding that DDR2 is meant to read 2 cards of the same capacity. So basically its worked the slot my 1gb was in twice as hard to keep up with the 2gb and fried it. I wanted to know if this is true."
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oh okay. i apologize. Well i read that online, thats why i was checking here to see if it was true. I called geek squad about this matter and they also said it wasnt true. So im gonna send it off under warranty and see what they can do.
 
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